Spring 2010 Premium Economy Menu UK-USA

OUTBOUND

Salad
Fresh green salad with a light vinaigrette dressing

Main Courses
Braised beef burgundy with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables
Creamy chicken korma with steamed rice and vegetable jalfrezi
Garganelli pasta with arrabiata sauce topped with bell peppers and parmesan

Warm Bread
Crusty white cob or mini malted roll

Dessert
Gu chocolate dessert

Cheese and Biscuits
Croxton Manor mature cheddar with crackers


INBOUND

Starters
Tomato and mozzarella green salad with Italian herb dressing

Main Courses
Seared salmon with lemon and caper sauce served with roasted fingerling potatoes and sliced carrots
Diced chicken breast fricassee with fettuccine and broccoli
Cheese filled tortellini pasta with tomato sauce and parmesan

Warm Bread
Pumpkin roll or pumpernickel bread

Dessert
Strawberry swirl cheesecake

Cheese and Biscuits
Cheddar cheese with crackers


WINES

White
Marques de Caza Airen

Red
Marques de Caza Tempranillo

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Some of those dishes sound nicer than the UC offerings IMO. Typical VS.

[Neil]

Originally posted by Kraken
Some of those dishes sound nicer than the UC offerings IMO. Typical VS.

I agree, sounds nice actually, I hope they are as nice when we are flying PE ([n]) in October.

Would these include the LGW/MAN flights ?

quote:Originally posted by northernhenry
Would these include the LGW/MAN flights ?


Yes LHR/LGW/MAN to the USA and back.

Do you have the UC menus from LHR to HKG and SYD?

Think I'm going to ask is anyone in PE wishes to swap meals!

They do sound more appetizing, particularly outbound!

[Nottingham Nick]

Many thanks for taking the time to post these menus, Tink.
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Nick

Thank you Nick for saying 'thank you' - it takes time to copy and type out these menus so it is nice to know that someone appreciates them.

Yummy - Gu chocolate dessert -- if I ask very nicely will they bring one to the forward cabin?

yes thanks Tinkerbelle- when do these start -it looks like we are flying to MCO the day before Kraken

The main courses appeal to me more than the Upper class ones. Did the catering department mix up their menus?!

Originally posted by flabound
yes thanks Tinkerbelle- when do these start -it looks like we are flying to MCO the day before Kraken

These menus started this week on the 3rd March.

Thank You from me too Tinkerbelle.

Katie

Ohhh. Can I order one of eveything now please?

Thanx Tinkerbell.[y]

Now have to wait for the home bound leg as we don't return till 1st July.

Big thanks from me Tinks, especially as my Mum is due to return from MCO next week and doesn't eat cheese of any sort. Hopefully she'll get the salmon but at least now I know to send her off with a sandwich just in case.

Jilly

Thanks Tinks [^]

Thanks Tinks....I should be flying PE at the end of this month, and they do sound good. My only thing is yes, they do sound delicious, but when it arrives and you peel back the tin foil, it's always a tad disappointing (unless you've had many drinks and you will eat anything!). I think it would actually be better if they made the menus sound as dreary as possible, and then when you got your food there is the chance that you might be pleasantly surprised. For example:

Starter: Lettuce (with potential bonus other stuff)
Main: Chicken and a sauce of unspecified nature
Beef with a vegetable of some sort
Something with no meat
Warm Bread: Bread, warmed.
Dessert: Something chocolatey
Cheese & Biscuits: Cheese & biscuit(s)

On a more serious note, one cost cutting/environment saving idea could be to get rid of the menus they give out in PE. Yes, I see the attraction, but realistically, the only choice is chicken or beef, and I'm not sure we need a printed menu for that. One idea (which they could also extend to the whole plane) would be (like they do on the AF A380) would be to have the menus on the IFE. Probably wouldn't be too much trouble to do?

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by s1990
The main courses appeal to me more than the Upper class ones. Did the catering department mix up their menus?!

Nope that's pretty normal, for some reason the catering people at VS don't seem to get that people flying in J would like a nice meal, instead they do with the overly fancy stuff that never really works well on a plane.

I mean you have a choice between

A

Braised beef burgundy with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Creamy chicken korma with steamed rice and vegetable jalfrezi

Garganelli pasta with arrabiata sauce topped with bell peppers and parmesan

or

B

Braised wilder beast tongue in a poison ivy reduction with creamed turnip

Pan seared Dodo liver with fermented goose eye balls

Pasta made with Jamaican coffee sauce


Of course you are goning to go with A, though I have a strange feeling that the people at VS would grab B in a heart beat.

I'm flying PE in May (MAN-MCO), they sound delicious.

[Scrooge]

BTW, more than once when flying in Upper I have requested meals from the PE menu (Sorry PE folks) it is an option that you sometimes have to take.

Originally posted by Scrooge

I mean you have a choice between

A

Braised beef burgundy with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables

Creamy chicken korma with steamed rice and vegetable jalfrezi

Garganelli pasta with arrabiata sauce topped with bell peppers and parmesan

or

B

Braised wilder beast tongue in a poison ivy reduction with creamed turnip

Pan seared Dodo liver with fermented goose eye balls

Pasta made with Jamaican coffee sauce


Of course you are goning to go with A, though I have a strange feeling that the people at VS would grab B in a heart beat.

You're right. The VS people have no clue. Obviously the poison ivy reduction and creamed turnip would be a much better complement to the pan seared dodo liver. Sheesh, who ferments goose eye balls these days?!

Thanks for posting Tinks.

I too prefer this menu to the UC one!

I 'll stick to my method of stuffing myself in the CH and just have cheese and biscuits onboard.

[buns]

Tinkerbelle

Grateful thanks [oo][oo]

buns

Looks much better than the UC menu